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Old 07-28-2012, 09:38 AM   #1
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Ya'll oughta be ashamed of yourselves. It's lunatics like you that kill people on the road. Just last week a young couple was killed by some idiot blazing on the highway at 175 km/h. He didn't lane change in time and slammed into them. Both dead, both not even 25, had been married only 4 months. And the idiot who murdered is still alive somehow. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I like speed just as much as anyone else, but keep it to abandoned backroads and racing tracks/strips. Not highways with innocent people on them. It's selfish and foolish.
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Old 07-28-2012, 05:44 PM   #2
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Ya'll oughta be ashamed of yourselves. It's lunatics like you that kill people on the road. Just last week a young couple was killed by some idiot blazing on the highway at 175 km/h. He didn't lane change in time and slammed into them. Both dead, both not even 25, had been married only 4 months. And the idiot who murdered is still alive somehow. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I like speed just as much as anyone else, but keep it to abandoned backroads and racing tracks/strips. Not highways with innocent people on them. It's selfish and foolish.
Tell us what you really think ? Hey .. it is all about what people can do to show off and get themselves on YouTube. I do agree .. the highways are not the place to see what your car can do. Myself .. I am very scared of speed .. so I go the speed limit.

The fastest I have ever gone was 220 KM/H on the Autobahn in Germany. I was in the backseat .. I wasn't driving. I think that I did something in my pants .. as that is twice as fast as we are allowed to go on the highways here in Canada.
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Old 07-28-2012, 06:57 PM   #3
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Ya'll oughta be ashamed of yourselves. It's lunatics like you that kill people on the road. Just last week a young couple was killed by some idiot blazing on the highway at 175 km/h. He didn't lane change in time and slammed into them. Both dead, both not even 25, had been married only 4 months. And the idiot who murdered is still alive somehow. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I like speed just as much as anyone else, but keep it to abandoned backroads and racing tracks/strips. Not highways with innocent people on them. It's selfish and foolish.
Was the 175 km/h driver young? We males sometimes do stupid things while driving until our frontal lobes have finished developing.

Don't lump all of the posts together. When I mentioned the fastest I had ever driven any car, I didn't say it was on a road that had any speed limit whatsoever. The 160 mph trip in the 911 was in California but, as I stated, I wasn't driving. The driver was much older and should have known better.

The Autobahn and Autostrade are HIGHWAYS. Both systems are controlled access, but they aren't backroads nor racetracks (despite that some drivers ACT to the contrary). One can get a ticket within either system for impeding traffic/driving too slowly. Every situation is different. I would agree that in a majority of cases, especially in North America, slower is better.
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Old 07-28-2012, 06:58 PM   #4
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Ya'll oughta be ashamed of yourselves. It's lunatics like you that kill people on the road. Just last week a young couple was killed by some idiot blazing on the highway at 175 km/h. He didn't lane change in time and slammed into them. Both dead, both not even 25, had been married only 4 months. And the idiot who murdered is still alive somehow. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I like speed just as much as anyone else, but keep it to abandoned backroads and racing tracks/strips. Not highways with innocent people on them. It's selfish and foolish.
you're right, and believe it or not, I'm very scary of going high speed and only I find courage when the highway is empty and going only me on the car, that's why I was going that fast for a short time
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Old 07-29-2012, 12:23 AM   #5
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Ya'll oughta be ashamed of yourselves. It's lunatics like you that kill people on the road.
As previous folks have said please don't lump everyone together. My forays into the 100+mph arena have been track only. Thanks.
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